Football, after 100 days off our TV screens has returned!
After courageously serving our nation’s health workers, bosses at McDonalds decided to close their stores across the globe as England and the rest of the world embarked in unchartered territory (the corona virus Covid 19)
After going into lockdown, England has slowly but surely ground to a halt. The nations favourite high street shops closed for an indefinite period, and so did famous restaurant chains such as McDonalds and Nando’s (that’s cheeky Nando’s).
One should work from home, unless they can’t was the order of the day from the powers the be at 10 Downing street. Everything that is well loved, cherished was getting taken away from us (all be it temporarily, but for how long?)
Gyms are closed till 4th July , hairdressers are still closed but McDonalds and other fast food chains slowly make the steps to open fully and return back to normal. But what about the beautiful game from our TV screens?
BBC, did try to compensate the loss by showing some old classic games, but how many times can I see Euro 96 re-runs and more depressingly Colin Hendry’s barnet?
TV fans, some of them were deprived of shows like love Island, so were hoping for some form of boost to the TV listings.
After 100 days, several meetings and several Coronavirus tests to ensure all are healthy – the Premier League is back on our screens! Waa hay! In even more good news, there will be many games on BBC, Pick TV and Sky Sports who will be showing free games too.
This evening there were two games, with surprise package Sheffield United taking on Aston Villa, who seem doomed for relegation. In a game that was understandably not the best (due the player’s time off), there was still some drama.
Before the season being brought to a halt, VAR was the hot topic of conversation in most games, this game has also suffered the same fate. The Aston Villa goalkeeper appeared to fumble the ball into his own net.
Thankfully for The Villains, with the officials being of similar quality to the one’s used at the 1966 World Cup final, Dean Smith’s men have potentially picked up a very valuable point in their quest to beat the drop.
In the other game, on paper it promised to be a good one. Former Manchester City assistant Mikel Arteta went back to former employers Man City as manager of Arsenal.
This fixture in recent games gone by between the sides has usually been a foregone conclusion with City trouncing Arsenal .
Sorry Gunners fans, there would be no surprise here as Raheem Sterling, a Kevin DeBruyne penalty and a Phil Foden strike at the stroke of full-time, would ensure City got their restarted season off to a winning start.
3-0 it would finish to The Citizens Manchester City.
The win for City meant that Liverpool can’t win the Premier League title at bitter rivals Everton, when the two face off on Sunday.
In what was an already tough task for the North Londoners, the sending off of David “side show Bob” Luiz, made a tough task to near impossible. With defending that arguably did replicate the Simpsons character, maybe the Brazilian’s days at The Emirates are numbered.
Talking of the Simpson’s if you believe in the Simpsons theories, maybe they saw this coming from many years ago, like they did with everything else. That brings an end to our round up of today’s matches.
Entertaining matches, these might not have been but come on, you have watched all the box sets on Netflix … It’s time to allow the real entertaining TV back into your lives.
What ever football serves up, you know it will always be better than watching love Island!
The Bearded Captain 